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Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1858-06-01

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' : i ; Ui I y: : ( ": I t I'd . iVv -ss?.y - VOLUME 22. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO: TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1858. NUMBER. 7. J is fciuibcd KTssr tuesdat noajturo, '-BT.LrUARl'EIL."'. Office in Woodward'i Block, Third Story, TERMS Two Dollars par annum, payable in advance; 12.60 within six months; $3,00 after the expiration of the year. Clubs of twenty, 11,60 each. . o CO B o o o a "1 4 - 0 o D cr B o D D 1$ p. $ c. $ c. $ c. $ c, $ e. $ c. $ c. !1 00 1 25 1 75 2 25 3 00 3 60 4 60 6 (0 1 jMare, '. 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Notieoe for meetings, charitable sooieties;firo 'cotnpauies, Ac, half-price. ar- Marriage notices inserted for 60 cts ; Deaths 25 ccuts, unless accompauied by obltuurics, which will he charged for at regular advertising rates. yp'if Advertisements displnyed in large type to be charged one-half more than regular rates. tranlent advertisements to Le paid for in advance. ;, ALOXE. BT EMMA ALICE BROWNB " There is a sound in all the land. Of the wind and the drivina rain, And a wild sea breaking on dead, whit'S sand, With a desolate cry of pain. As if its mighty and tejrihle heart Vere heaved with a human pain I stand alone with tho wind and rain-, As wary a poet hath stood, Soul-lit with the beautiful inner light And the ense of a higher good But feeling, because of tho world, as if My life were written with blood! And my soul keeps sobbing a sorrowful song, Like a brook, iu autumn wood. - Blow wind ! blow wind '. fall, desolate rain ! And cry, oh surrowlexs sea. To the dumb, white is:yd thy merciless pain, .For such hath my heart for me 1'itilefx, pitilyMsJ liomelesx and citijess ! Sueh is tlie world lor uiu ! TIIC SMJX Til IT IV IU.1IS. r CHARi-r.s ewAiy. The Pan that warms the fading flowor May cheer, not change us "doom; May stuy its fate for one brief hour, ; Jiut ne'er restore its bloom ! 8o. when the withcr'd heart ret-eiveg The light of love too late. Its charm a while the wreck relieves But cannot change its late ! - ' That heart, if yesterday caress'd, Perchance had. seaped decay 1 That muile, wl.ieh yesterday had bleat, Comes all in v:iiu to --day 1 Then, O r fTovt's vow of honor. keep " Nornet Atl'eetiou wnit; For vain repentance, vain to weep, When kindness cotnes too lato t hctcljrs of lllnu POSTMASTEU GENERAL BRO-WN. The last nunj'ber of' Ballou's Pictorial contains IrutViful and written fiktch of the history of the Hon. Aaros V. Drown, P. M. General of the United States, which we insert as a filling tribute to this most upright, energetic and cocr.-petent public servant. The author of the bketch ays : j Mr. Aaron V. Drown was born In Drunswick county, Virginia, A tijrnst 15, I7i)5. His father, a clergyman of the Methodist persuasion, dtirinfr early life, served in the revolutionary army, and took part in the capture of Trenton and other actions of the war, of Independence. His mother was Elizabeth Melton, a lady of time-honored family of North Carolina, in which state the son was -principally educateJ, receiving his preparatory ed ocation at Westrayvilie Academy," and praduatinpr with the highest honors of Chapel Hill University. Ilis valedictory oration contained evidence Of that genius which has illustrated his subsequent career. Previous to his graduation, his parents bad removed to Tennessee, and thither young Brown followed them, entering the law office of Judge Trimble, at Nashville, fn the year 2815. Soon after bisad missiera Hto the bar, he removed to Giles county, where his parents had etabli8hed themselves; Soon after this he formed a business connection with James K. Polk, J destined afterwards to become President of the United States, and although their partnership was severed by Mr. Polk's entrance in the arena of politics, their friendship was continued until the death of the President. During Mr. Polk's administration be freely Consultedi Mr. Brown, and. placed the completest reliance on his judg' meet and discretion. While in the enjoyment of a large practice at the bar, Mr. Brown was an active and influential member of the State Legis ture, disUnguishing himself try his knowledge, ... lit aptitude for business, his foresight, cool fear, lesraessand eloquence. On the 18th October, 1827, he introduced and eloquently advocated a series of resolutions, gifing the election of President to the people, and renominating General Jackson, after his defeat by Mr. Adams, to that - See, In the year 1832, which closed the period of his legislative services in the State, Governor Brown devoted himself to professional practice - and to agriculture, of which Tatter occupation he , was very fond, and which he has eulogized in - someot hi. best addresses. In 1329, he first be-, eme a candidate for Congress. In 1841, he r-s elected without a competitor, and ia 1843, Twectea inampnantly, though an altercation in tis district increased the hazards of the contest. Oo tbw broader field of action opened by the balls of the NaUonsl Legislaturehe at once as sumed a commanding position, and took a lead' ing part in the debates on . the tariff, the fiscal bill, and other important "measures then before Congress, defending Democratic doctrines with signal abtfity. His speeches were equally dis tinguished bv sound logic, a strong array of facts, and by a strain of impassioned eloquence. Ia 1845, he was elected Governor of Tennessee, though even Mr. Polk had just been defeated as a candidate for that office, so strong and well organized was the whig opposition. In a speech he made during the canvas, after ''handling the questioua-of bank and tariff, he passed on to the exciting questions of Texas and Oregon, then agitating the country, and uttered the following national sentiments, which, though often quoted, we cannot refrain from producing here: "It be comes the American people to be ready at all times to assert and defend their rights. America may become the last asylum of human liberty. In almost every other country, the just and equal rights of man "hive been cloven down by the sword, or usurped by the kiug3, princes, and potentates of the earth. Here Liberty has reared .her favorite temple. She has laid iu foundations deep and wide.' Iler bulwarks are massy, exten sive and strong; and the ministers who attend her a'.tars, and the worshippers who come within her gates, should never surrender it, but with their lives. Never was there a people who possessed a more delightful country. Go up with me in imagination and stand for a while on some lofty summit of the Kocky Mountains. Let us take one ravishing view of this chosen land of liberty. Turn your face towards the Gulf of Mex'i oT" What do you behold? Instead of one lone star family sinning in the. far distant South, a mighty galaxy of tstars, of the first raasnitude are bursting on your view, all shining with bright and glorious effulgence. Now turn with me to the West the mighty West where the setting sun dips his broad disk in the. western ocean. Look away down through the misty distauee to the shore of the Pacific, with all its bays, rivers and harbors. Cast your eyes towards the Russian possessions,: in latitude fifty four degrees and forty minutes. What a new ..world lies before you! How many magnificent States to be the future homes of the sous and daughters of free, dotnl But yoa have not yet gazed on half this glorious country. Turn now your face to the East, where the morning sun first shines' on our noble land. Away yonder, you see the immortal thirteen, who achieved onr independence. Nearer to us lie the twelve or 'fifteen" States of the great Valley of the Mississippi, stretching and repos-iai like so many giants in their slumbers. O, now I see your hearts are full; they can take in no more. Who imw feels that he is a party man, or-a Southern man, or a Northern man? Who docs not feel that he is an American, and thankful to Ht-aveu that his lot was cast in such a goodly land? When did mental vision ever rest oh such a scene? Moses, when standing on the summit of Mount Pisah, looking over oh the promised land, viewed nut a scene half so lovely. 0 let us this day vow that . whatever else we may be called, we will never surrender an acre of this goodly heritage to any king or potentate on eartb. Jswear-'it, swear itv my countrymen, and Heaven will record the sacred vow foreyerl" We should like to quote from other speeches of Gov. Brown, had wo the space, particularly from that in defence of Mr. Pulk's ad ministration, delivered in 1817, at.d that iii the subsequent year, advocating the election of Gen. Cass. In 1832, we find him vigorously advocating the election of Gen. Pierce, and iu Ib'jj speaking with great energy against the doctrines of the American or Know Nothing party. ; Indeed, (rom his entrance into pohuc-s,,w 6nd him the able and untiring champion of Democratic doctrines and measures, per-forming a vast amount of work in the halls of. legislation, iu Conventions and on the stump. His unwavering loyalty, his great talents, his broad national views, and his large experience, induced President Buchanan, when forming his Cabinet, to invite him to take charge of the Post Olfice, one of the most important Departments of the State, and one of the most laborious as well as honorable. He haidischarged the duties of this office, the burthens of which are constant ly increasing, to the entire acceptance of the public, receiving the compliments aud commendations of the press, without distinction of par ty. The people have ratified the President's choice. Dacotah Territory. Minnesota papers state that this Territory is receiving a fair share of immigration Numbers are pouring inby way of the Missouri, bound for the valley of the Big Sioux River. It is in con templation to place two steamboats on the Big Sioux this summer, which will run a distance of one hundred and fifty miles above the point where it empties into the Missouri. This will tend greatly to encourage emigration in that di rection. Minnesota and Dacotah contain a large extent of water, navigable for boats of a light draught, which is rapidly being made available. Some five or six hundred miles will this year be added to the empire of stream. xVostitution In New York At the anniversary meeting of the New York Magdalen Society held last week, statistics were produced showing the frightful increase of prostitution in that city. From these it would ap pear that there are within three miles of the city hall no fewer than 400 recbgmYed houses of ilf-fame, containing at least 4,000 abandoned females. The police returns show1 that the whole number of professedly dissolute women in the city cannot be short of twenty.."five, thousand. . Foixowtsc FAsmotf.S&id a judicious fattier "Do not imagfoe, my daoghter, thst yoa are agreeable or attractive, when your person is exposed or when yoa aid nature by arUficial means. Two classes of persons may gaze on yoa, to be sure the immoral and licentious with familiarity; lt reflecting and serious, with sadness. Will yoa cnsant to SQchr scrutiny? Follow fashion no farther than fashion follows propriety. Never let y our mantamaker dictato yoar morals. .ggrrsswit. Search and Seizure of American Vessels. The President transmitted on Friday, 21st alt? to the Senate, in response to a resolution of that body, several official papers, relating to a subject that is now engrossing attention throughout the country. The report of the Secretary of State to the President is as follows: DepXrtmext or State, : "Washington, 18th May, 18a8. ' Sir: Since my despatch No. 103, of the 12th instant, various statements have been made in the public papers, showing other cases of the forcible detention and search of American Vessels by British armed ships-ofwar in the Gulf of Mexico and in the adjacent seas. In every case where these reports have come to the knowledge of this Department, application has been made immediately to the proper collector to procure from the captain a particular account of the outrage, with a view to make it the subject of re clamation upon the British government. Answers to some of these applications have been received, and copies of them, agreeably to the annexed list, are herewith transmitted, for your informa tion, as well as for , your prompt action. When" others are received, you shall, in like manner, be furnished with copies, that jou may be kept advised of the progress of these assaults upon our national rights. In addition to these aggressions upon the high seas, another indefensible act of violence egaihst several of pur merchant vessels, said to be eleven in number, by forcible entry and examination, has been committed by a British armed -steamer i itrtlie harbor of Sagua la Grande, in the island 5f Cuba, : Tha statements in the public journals contain the details of this transaction, but no authentic report on the subject has yet reached the Department, with the exception of a letttr from the Consul General of the United States at Ha-vanna, of which I transmit you a copy. Proper measares have been taken to procure all the necessary information, which will be forwarded to you as soon as it reaches here. When all the facts are ascertained, proper representations will be made, without delay, to the government of her Catholic Majesty against this search of American vessels by the na val force of another po wer, within the territorial jurisdiction of Spain. The United States are satisfied that the government of that country will adopt the most efficient meas' ures to protect their vessels resorting to the Spanish ports fromilawless violence. Such protection they are entitled to, and if it is not found else where, it. must be found in the power of their own country. I am not informed whether any injury was sustain in consequence of the proceedings againsv thee vessels. If there were, it will he expected that be made food by the Spanish gov ernment itself, or by means of its interposition with the government of Great Britain. The flagrant violations of the rights of the U. States have eicited a deep feeling through the country, and have attracted the attention of both houses of Congress. Their continuance cannot fail to produce the most serious effects upon the relations of the two countries. Tlie President con6dently believes that the British naval officers, in the adoption of these high banded measures, have acted without the authority, and have misunderstood the views, of their government. But it is not the less due to the United States that their conduct should be disavowed, and pe remptory orders issued to prevent. the recurrence of similar proceedings hereafter- You will communicate to the Earl of Malmesbury the earnest expectation of the President that this subject should receive the immediate aitention of her Britannic Magesty'a government, and that the officers who have been guilty of these outrages should be held properly responsible for their conduct, and that, where pecuniary injuries have been suffered, the interested parties should re. ceive just compensation. . - l'ou will also invite the particular attention ot Lord Malmesbury to the occurrences at Sagua la Grand, and to the just expectations of the United States that the measured of redress adopted by the British government upon this occasion will be such as to mark with its" displeasure th conduct of the officer whose proceedings have given a serious cause of offence to a friendly power, and to prevent a similar interference here after. - '1 I am, sir, respectfully, - Your obedidieut servant, " ' - V: V ';f LEW. CASS. - George M. Dallas, Esqn &c, &c.t Jbe. A report from the Secretary of the Navy, da ted the 19th insL, states that the United States steamer Fulton, Lieut. Almy commanding.Jbaii beeb ordered to oruise on -the north side of, the coast of Cuba, or sucli other portions as may be deemed necessary for the protection of American vessels on the high seas from search of detention by the vessels-of war of any other nation. Orders have also been given for the immediate preparation of the razee sloop Savannah, at New York, and the big Dolphin, at Boston, to join the honJe scfaaiJron, for the purpose of cruising fn" the neighborhood of Cuba; and (he steam frigate Wabash, now fitting oat at New York as the flag .ship of the Mediterranean squadron, has been directed erf rcnite to show her flag in those waters, and to protect at all times' the persons and property of American citizens. General Cass, on the' 12th instant ids tracts Mr. Dallas, our minister at Dontfori, to call the attention of the Britishr government to the aggressions complained, of. The letter is as fob lows i " . - - - '; '' ""-; '-.-' ' " "The aceb'm panning papers,' copies of the originals of which have just been received, will make known to yoa another outrage committed gainst th rights' of" th e' tTnited" fSates by a British armed vessel, which calls' for the immediate attention of the British go'verntnenV "I am persuaded that, if the occurrence took place as they are stated, the conduct of the British officer will be disavowed and condemned. . lbeg yoa woald communicate to Lord Mai-mesbary:the earnest desire of the President that this practice, which seems to become more pre valent, of detaining and searching American vessels, should be discontinued, 'and that the most peremptory order for that purpose should be given and enforced. Such"-'a measure is called for by important considerations, which will readily occur to you., While this government is determined to use all proper exertions for the suppression, of the slave trade, it is not less desirous that the just immunity of the vessels of the United States npon the ocean should be preserved. Whatever may have been the true objects of the voyage of the Cortez, if she had papers showing her American character, she was subject " neither to se&cch. nor capture by the British cruiser. I do net doubt but the facts reported will be fully investigated by or der of the British government, and proper meas ures taken to prevent the recurrence of a simi lar act hereafter. "I call your attention, also, to the circumstan ces reported by the consul general at Havana, showing the existence of a kind ef police system by which American vessels in that port are watched and interfered with, and have to request that you will, bring the matter to the attention of the Earl of Malmesbury, with a view to the correction of the evil. - The Great Maryland Black Cat Case. From a CorrcFpondent of the Washington Union. "If yoa meet a black cat, shave him to the tail." This tremendous case is now pending before a judicial tribunal of the State of Maryland, and presents many remarkable features of the ingenuity and speculative capacity of the defendant in the case. For the benefit of the legal profession and gentlemen generally who may wish tO enter a new field of speculation, I will give a short history of the case as I beard it. Some few years ago a gentleman of Maryland conceived the idea that an immense fortune could be realized by the rearing black cats for the sake cf their skins. The principal obstacle to the plan was the impossibility of keeping the animals together, and preventing them from wandering off, as their activity, assisted by the penetrating qualities of their claws, would enable them to defy any enclosure, and. at last after much thinking, the idea suggested itself to his mind that water was the only barrier that the cats would not pass. Beiug in possession of an is-laud that appeared to be just tailed for the ex periment, he found all obstacle to the success of his plan remove J, and set abput t acizing the affair. .- " .. . ' - He employed an agent, find j a circular, in which he stated that 'hm would o-ive bo much a head for every black cat itattouliXe yutr This advertisement was circulated throughont all the counties bordering npon the Chesapeake bay, and the negroes got hold of it. In a very short time all the black cats through these counties were stolen by the Degrees and sold to the agent who bad depots established at different conve nient points. Our ladies missed their favorite cats, and mourned them as dead but the negroes, Incited by the price offered, spared none. In this way, one hundred and fifty black cats were collected and transported to the island ; and the agent took up his abode there like another Robinson Crusoe, as superintendent and guardian of the cats. These animals - appeared to jen- joy themaelves vastly when put on the island, and spent their time either in playing with each other, or hunting birds and ground mice ; but at last their game failed them, and having no other supply of food, they became hungry and desperate, and roamed about, the Island in large bands, yelling for food. They at last became danger ousf and the agent wrote to his employer a statement of-the facts, ftccoriipaniedl by a request to know how he was to feed them. lie wrote back for the agent to set a couple of negroes to work to catch and open oysters for the cats, which on der was carried out. The cats, having the alternative of oysters or starvation before them, very naturally chose the former but not being accustomed to such unnatural food, a species of cholera broke out among them, and oue half died. This calamity drove the survivors mad, and they either committed suicide, or, in fit of desperation, swam to main land. At any rate they, disappeared, and were never heard of more.- The agent then . wrote to his employer, to ac quaint him. with the result of this new treatment, which news was accompanied by a modest re quest for the payment of his w aces for this cat experiment occupied a space upward of a year. The latter was so indignant at the conduct of both the agent and the eats, that he flatly refused and in consequence of his refusal, was a suit brought by the agent to recover his wages.- This suit has been defended for some two years, and during its progress, I have become acquainted with the facts. As far as the theory of this; speculation went, it was a magnificient idea. The skin of the black cat is worth, in Boston, 50 cents. The cats, I am told, cost the agent jast that earn. It was supposed tbey would increase exactly tenfold per annum. They : say, first year, number of cats 150 second year, 1,500 3 third year, 15,000 j from which there could be obtained 5,000 toms for sale, bringing $2,500, and leaving 10,000 stock cats remaining j which, at the above ratio of increase, woald give the fourth year the enormous 8am of 100,000 cats' npon the island, after which all the sarplas .over and above the last n amber, were to be canght in box traps, and the 'skins sold to Boston furrieri This stock' of 100,-000 cats were to' produce t,009,000 . skins per an-num, and the revenue consequently to be deriv-, ed from' the island, would be ia .the neighborhood of $'500,000' per annaau .. -f-r The principal drawback to the enterprise was fne utter inability of the cats td organize or band together for the purpose assisting each other, and thus facilitating their hunting operations ; .so after deep reflection npon the subject, it was determined to import a con pie of wild cats from Soath America, whose admixture with- his -cats woald not only add strength to the body and value to Curious Cat Case. . the fur, bat whose executive qualities might be brought so bear in organizing the original settler into large hunting packs and thns enable them to successfully pursue the squirrels and ground mice with which the island abounded and in fact, to teach these unfortunate animals, who, torn from the comfortable firesides, were, of coarse, ignorant of the necessities of savage life, the mysteries of. the chase. He readily found a friend willing to procure him the new cats. I'm afraid this friend regarded the whole matter as a jokejTbut at any rate he was faithful to his pro mise, and as soon after his arrival- in Bio Janeiro as possible, he set some natives hooting, who eaught two young tiger cats of extraordinary ferocity, which he placed in a cage and shipped to Baltimore. When he had almost forgotten the matter, he was surprised by the receipt of a letter apprising him of the arrival of these wild beasts, and was requested tp come forward, pay charges, and take them away.". lie harried into town and found these young tigers; about the size of a medium setter-dog, and a bill of charges of sev eral hundred per cent more than he anticipated. He paid it, and ordered two negroes to convey the beasts in a cart out to his country home, for he wished to exhibit them before he sent them down to take command of his island cat3. On the road out to his place the cats glared and spit at the negroes in such a fiendish manner that, to get ritf of them, they turnedlhe cage over on the bar side, whereby one of the cats was smothered. - - The survivor, being deprived of his mate, became more ferocious than ever, and it became a question whether it would be safe for" the cats upon the island to turn it loose among them. The owner was very much worried until lis negro man suggested that he should try the experi ment b putting a tame cat into the cage. The idea was the very thing. A cat was procured and introduced into the cage. In about two minutes it was torn into, shreds and utterly devoured. Of course it would have been madness to turn the beast loose on the island so the idea was abandoned, and it has been kept ever since as a small menagerie attached to the gentleman's house, with the exception of a periodical visit to the Agricultural Fair in Baltimore when it is placed among the poultry, and causes the hearts of the chickens to die within them. This is a short history of the great black cat scheme, and the suit arising from it. Whether there is legal ability in the state sufficient to settle the matter, is more than I am able to say. Aknapolis, Mdn May 3, 1858. . in, i'..A.Qot8lpplxg:.llnieancej ".". iV The separation betwee a . Wm. H. Herbert and his young wife, and his consequent suicide, was occasioned by the meddling mischief-making propensities of a gossipping hag, who raked up all the exaggerated stories of his former life, and retailed them to his wife. Where is the ducking stool?. The Newark Advertiser says: After their marriage the parties proceeded immediately, to Mr. Herbert's cottage at "The Cedars," about two miles above the centre of this city, on thePassaic river, and for a time they were perfectly happy in each other's society; Some six weeks after this ceremony the reptile spirit of calumny crawled into h"i3 quiet home; it is alleged that some one, represented to be a lady, took occasion, probably without any idea of the tragic, result, and poured into his wife's mind a recital of the worst features of his life in the usual exaggerated g03sip, and on his return he found her alone and melancholy. She told him what had passed, but refused to reveal the person. This fired Herbert's inflammable temperament, and, in tha heat of his impetuosity, he threatened to destroy himself if she did not reveal the name. She In turn became frantically alarmed, and raptured a small blood-vessel, or produced a hemorrhage of the lungs. This in turn alarmed Herbert, who did all he could to restore her health and relieve her m'md; -but from that moment she determined to leave him, and did so during his absence in New York. . . -. : '. ' - According to his representations he passed oat of the gate, which leads into the Cemetery, and she accompanied him to the fence, bidding him an affectionate adiea, with a kiss. On his return she had gone, and the fall gush of desolation and despair unbalanced his sensitive mind. He Strove in vain to bring her back, and thinking it would promote the object, he left his cottage, which he thought might- have been too lonely for her, and took apartment at the Stevens House, New York, late Delmonico's near the Bowline Green. Here he used every effort of his ingenuity to recover his wife, but she steadily refused to meet him, arid finally instructed her attorney to inform him that she would rei ceive no further communications from him. . A Terrific Streak of Lightning The Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph gives the particulars of a most singular freak of lightniag on Tuesday last, in Concord, of that county. The house of Mr. Sticknsy was struck with the fluid, which made sad havoc with every part of the building'; At one end of the roof, rafter, cornice shingles and all are entirely shattered. Id the chamber in this immediate location, and directly beneath a rafter that was shattered into kindling wood, a son of Mr. Stickney was at the moment sitting at a table writting, but escaped without tne slightest injury. Ia another part of the roof everything is carried away, leaving a hole some ten by fifteen feet. 7 One branch of the charge passed into the cellar, where so great was the expansion of the air as to burst away the hatchway. The same effect was manifested in two large: rooms where every window is orated out. Furniture in all parts of the house, except ia the kitchen and a small room adjoining, was Splintered into thousands of fragments, and yet, almost past belief,' of the six members of the family ia the house at the time, not one was in the slightest injured. - J Cluigs iu (Scncral. Wnat an . JEnglisb. Girl Thinks of the : llormons. . , An English girl, named Elizabeth Cotton, who was induced to join the Mormons and emigrate to Salt Lake, writes home to Leeds,Englacd, as follows: I am afraid I never shall see you again; but still I live in hopes. We started from. Salt Lake some time since to come back again, but the Mormons met us, and we were compelled to go back. On arriving at the Salt Lake I was not a little surprised to see the men running after th women and asking if they were married; bat l have not got married yet, and do not intend to. Many of the men have eight or ten wires, and they sleep with one two nights, and the other two nights, and so oa and this is Mormonism. Bat this is not all, for Brigham Young has sixty women, and they had twelve sops in one year, and how many daughters I do not know. What they preach about is, -, thieving and cut" ting anybody's throat- and if yoa ask anything about it you are told it is none of your d- d business. I know one young woman of fifteen who has had four husbands in five months, and that gives you an idea of Mormonism..: Ann Jubb came along with us across the plains, and when she got to Salt Lake there were so many men running after her that she got married, and she is the second wife, and they call her Ann Webb, but she is far from being comfortable, and would be glad to be back again. If I was in England, and any Mormon elder came to the house where I was, I would give him a pretty warm reception. Mormonism in England and Mormonism in Salt Lake are as different as chalk and cheese. ; - Another Hurricane. This seems to be a year , of storms. We are the sufferers in this instance. . It occurred Mon. day May 1 7th in the afternoon. In a moment after the storm burst upon 03, our new brick church was in ruins; Ruhl's grove was uprooted, the wood-house of the C. C. & C. R. R. Co., was destroyed; nttmerbus other buildings throughout the town were unroofed, and, saddest record of all, one life was lost. The man killed was a worthy German laborer, by the name of Frank Miller. He was coming pa foot from Crestline to our place. Walking on the railroad track, just after he had crossed the bridge, he was overtaken by the Storm. A freight car, standing on a side track, was caught by the current of the tornado, and blown like a straw along the track. Blinded by the beating of the hail, or perhaps blown into its track, the poor fellow was crushed under its wheels. He was found almost immediately, was removed to the house of Mr. Jacob Yost, and died the same evening. The loss of the church will be severely felt by the United Brethren, (the denomination own-infti,) taj we hope that they will have the pock- etjtslt ajmp&thy of . onr citizens, and. of their brethren abroad. Crestline and Liberty, we understand, have suffered severely. Indeed the storm seems to have been general throughout tht3 section. Judgment of its violence at this point may be found from the fact of its having blown down no less than seventy trees in RuLl's grove, a little tract of some two or three acres of wood land. Gcdion Democrat. Horrible Kape by a 2fegro. . A most revolting rape was committed by a negro on a Miss Blatchly, a school teacher at North Branford Connecticut. The New Haven ' cor, respondent of the Hartford Times says that the outrage was committed by a burly negro named Franklin, and was more aggravating than at first reported. He is about thirty years of age. The fellow according to his own statement made to the jailor, met the young woman in a lonely patch of woods, through which she was going to her school in the morning. Possibly he had ascertained that she would be likely to take that path as the nearest one to the school, and so placed himself there on purpose. He seized her and dragged her into a thicket where, in spite of her. cries, he held her fast. He states that she struggled furiously, and bit and scratched him, shrieking for help, for upwards of an hour! She at last became utterly exhausted, and unable to resist him for want of strength when as he alleges, he accomplished his base purpose. His face bears bloody evidence of the desperation of the struggles of his victim. The girl is said to have told a somewhat different story about his being frightened off by a man's voice. " He appears callous and brutal, , and talks of his crime coolly. Speaking of his poor victim, he remarked to the jailor, that "Dat was a pooty smart woman" or wordsj to that effect.. This is an appeal to those who earnestly advocate, tquattiff which is irresistible He should swing loftily. " ,. The Dead-Letter Ofice. This is one of the peculiar institutions of the Government. That's certain. During a single year, in addition to some $50,000 in money returned to its lawful ownerSr there- have been found in the letters, and restored, drafts, checks and other valuable papers, amounting to three and a half millions of dollars: In the greater number cf instances dead letters which. have thus been returned to the department, have failed to reach their destination in uue coarse by reason of misdirection. This may, doubtless, be attributed to the hurry in which banks and large mercantile houses close up their correspondence for the day. 0ae bank sends a letter covering paper amounting to thousands of dollars inside the package is addressed to Nashville, outside to New Orleans. Another . heavy remittance is di reeled to Troy New .York, without any address whatever oa the inside. A third package was directed oa the outside to LouUville, Ky.; the inside direction is to New. Orleans. - . ' A Mas Mcbdk3kdbj Mob ts Iowa Citt.- A man was deliberately murdered, on Thursday last, hy a mc-h at Iowa Citj by teing forcibly drowned ia the river. From thirty to forty of the mob were, arrested and lodged in the city prison. The man was understood to be charged with horse stealing and other depredations of a similar aatore. The Hew York Iliiknen. Stirred Up. , '-Frank Leslie's Kcws is. after the New York milk-men with a sharp and penetrating stick.- The last issue of that paper has several cuts illustrative af the villainy of the milk men. It seems they not only chalk and water the milk : but the article ia it3 purest state is frequently ta-: , ken from diseased cows. One of the cuts shows " ns a cow covered with running sores, and the Ketcs asserts that the milk from this cow is daily sold in New York, ; We guess people from the-interior won't take much milk in their coffee hereafter when they Tisit Gotham. . Sy Frank Leslie deserves every person's" thanks for this exposure. mi . 1 ggmgg "- t The Jews Preparing to Acknowledge " - Christ. . . ; . - The Rev. Mr. Burns, a converted Jew, and Asi ; sietant -Secretary of the Society for ameliorating the condition of the Jews, is Jectaringin Boston. A few nights ago he stated that in his official capacity, he had recently "received a letter from England, giving an aeconnt of a meeting cf Rabbis in that (country to discuss the question wheth'. er Christ was the true Messiah, "Tbey agreed , if. the Messiah did not come in fifteen years to accept Christ as the true Messiah." " . 4 abics' Foolish Virgins.' In olden times there were VJice juolltft virgins." We are afraid that there are fully a3 m.nj as that number at this present day. Some cf theni were born foolish; some of them' were made foolish by the example of their weak-minded moth-" ' ers; and some of them have male themselves : foolish. . ... .' ' See that dashing belle, flounced from her hel to her arm pits, and bedizened with jewelry ' pearls, gems, and precious stones, ner mother thinks her an angel; and: 6he thinks herself an archangel; but she is a "foolish virgin that is all she i3. ne who made her endowed her with ; an immortal soul, and pointing her to an eter nal hereafter, 'said to her, "Let not yonr ador- - ning be outward, the adorning of plaiting the hair, of wearing gold, or of putting on apparelj let it be the hidden man of the heart, even the; ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price." But all the adorning that this foolish virgin has in outicard'. She has no solid education no mental culture. and no noble and gencroas heart. She is not qualified for any usefu'ness " in this world except as a frame on which to exhibit dry -goods and the dressmaker's skill. And when ehe shall appear before her Maker, stripped of her "out ward adorning," and without that precious "orna"" ment of the heart, what a miserable figure that foolish virgin will cut. It is awful to th uk of the future of these mere.'- tmft 6rlespf JssLi . What is she good for?" She coaki nofmaka a-loaf of bread, nor roast a turkey, nor bake a padding.' She could not knit a tidy, though she often knits her brow. She could not darn a stocking, though she could darn everything elset The most simple article of dress that adores her , useless body she could not make. . Shc toils not, neither does she spin, yet Solomon, in all his glory, is not arrayed like her. She has very little mind. Her head 13 well nigh as hol low as a yellow pumpkin.. She can only talk of theaters, balls, fashion and beaux; Her mortal nature is wholly uncultivated.' She spends more time in examining fashion plates, than in examining her poor little heart; more time in reading love storie3 than in reading the blessed Bible. . What oa earth is she good for? She is a bj'1 of useless expense to her father, and a barren fig tree in the great moral vineyard. The world would be better off if this foolish virgjn no longer cumbered the ground. And one of these days the scythe of time will cut her down, and the miserable flirt will go to her account. GirlsJ young women, consider yoar ways. Have a high and worthy purpose. Make yourselves a blessing to this woili. Abhor to be Flora 51c Flimsy," as yoa would abhor to be any other fool," Be usefal, be modest, be good, be "wise virgins, and when the great bridegroom shall come, you , shall go with him to the marriage. . Silk Dresses, Laces, &c 4 . We frequently see ia the newspapers th&ii. lady, on her bridal day, or at a ball, wore a silk dress, worth, with it3 laces, trimmings, Jttu, one thousand dollars. Of course, alL the ingredients used in the manufacture of the cosily garment were imported from Europe. Let us have soma words oa the subject. . , ' ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. . Is the payment for the service of a goJ cloxii during a whole year. It is the wages of a mechanic for three jeoJ at one dollar per day. It is the wages of one farm hani fr teeu jears at one hundred and fifty dollars per year. It is the price at four dollars aud sevet.ty -five cents of two hundred and fifteen barrels of Q jur to be shipped from New York to pay fr tho dress; or, in other words, it is the bread of foi ty-two thousand one hundred and forty nieufoc, oue dayi at one paund each or the bread of oac man during oni handred and sixteen years. ' It is the price of two hundred thousand bricks at fire dollars per thousand. It is the price of twenty five fit steers at forty dollars a piece. : It is the price ot two hundred neat and tidy calico dresses at five dollars eachl 5 - It is the price of twenty , bales of cotuia t twelve and a half cents per poanJ. r . It is the price of tea tons of hemp at uuo hundred dollars pr torn - It is the price of tea thousand poua 1 of to bacco at tea cents per pound. " - ' - It is the crop of oue handred and twenty five acres of corn at eight dollars per acre. - - ' It is the crop oT filly acres of wheat at twenty bushels per acre, and oue doVt per hu?Ld. , -It is the crop ot forty acres in potiUx , at f-"." ty boshels to the acre, and ;ty ceats l.s I !'.!. It is for ten years the real of a hote u! i f dollars per month.' gcprlmmf

' : i ; Ui I y: : ( ": I t I'd . iVv -ss?.y - VOLUME 22. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO: TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1858. NUMBER. 7. J is fciuibcd KTssr tuesdat noajturo, '-BT.LrUARl'EIL."'. Office in Woodward'i Block, Third Story, TERMS Two Dollars par annum, payable in advance; 12.60 within six months; $3,00 after the expiration of the year. Clubs of twenty, 11,60 each. . o CO B o o o a "1 4 - 0 o D cr B o D D 1$ p. $ c. $ c. $ c. $ c, $ e. $ c. $ c. !1 00 1 25 1 75 2 25 3 00 3 60 4 60 6 (0 1 jMare, '. Z tquare: - ,1 75 2 25 3 25 4 25 5 25 6 00 6 75.8 00- 3 tquaret, - 2 503 50 4 50 5 05 (5 00 7 00 8 00 10 4 tquartt, - Is 50 4 00 5 00 t 00 7 00 8 00 10 I j I oqiiare, changeable monthly, $10 tbeekty .....$I5 i i column, changeable quarterly,. ......... ......... ..... 15 "l column, ehangerhle quarterly r. ....... . v-. 18 i column, chatttjeahle quarterly, 25. 1 column, changeable quarterly ,.;.... 40 Twelve lines of Minion, (thU type) are counted o a square. - pif Editorial notices of advertisements, or calling attention to any enterprise intended to benefit individuals or corporations, will be charged for at the Tate of 10 cents per line. ; . " " jf&r Special-notices, before marriages, or taking precedence of regular advertisements, double usual rate. Notieoe for meetings, charitable sooieties;firo 'cotnpauies, Ac, half-price. ar- Marriage notices inserted for 60 cts ; Deaths 25 ccuts, unless accompauied by obltuurics, which will he charged for at regular advertising rates. yp'if Advertisements displnyed in large type to be charged one-half more than regular rates. tranlent advertisements to Le paid for in advance. ;, ALOXE. BT EMMA ALICE BROWNB " There is a sound in all the land. Of the wind and the drivina rain, And a wild sea breaking on dead, whit'S sand, With a desolate cry of pain. As if its mighty and tejrihle heart Vere heaved with a human pain I stand alone with tho wind and rain-, As wary a poet hath stood, Soul-lit with the beautiful inner light And the ense of a higher good But feeling, because of tho world, as if My life were written with blood! And my soul keeps sobbing a sorrowful song, Like a brook, iu autumn wood. - Blow wind ! blow wind '. fall, desolate rain ! And cry, oh surrowlexs sea. To the dumb, white is:yd thy merciless pain, .For such hath my heart for me 1'itilefx, pitilyMsJ liomelesx and citijess ! Sueh is tlie world lor uiu ! TIIC SMJX Til IT IV IU.1IS. r CHARi-r.s ewAiy. The Pan that warms the fading flowor May cheer, not change us "doom; May stuy its fate for one brief hour, ; Jiut ne'er restore its bloom ! 8o. when the withcr'd heart ret-eiveg The light of love too late. Its charm a while the wreck relieves But cannot change its late ! - ' That heart, if yesterday caress'd, Perchance had. seaped decay 1 That muile, wl.ieh yesterday had bleat, Comes all in v:iiu to --day 1 Then, O r fTovt's vow of honor. keep " Nornet Atl'eetiou wnit; For vain repentance, vain to weep, When kindness cotnes too lato t hctcljrs of lllnu POSTMASTEU GENERAL BRO-WN. The last nunj'ber of' Ballou's Pictorial contains IrutViful and written fiktch of the history of the Hon. Aaros V. Drown, P. M. General of the United States, which we insert as a filling tribute to this most upright, energetic and cocr.-petent public servant. The author of the bketch ays : j Mr. Aaron V. Drown was born In Drunswick county, Virginia, A tijrnst 15, I7i)5. His father, a clergyman of the Methodist persuasion, dtirinfr early life, served in the revolutionary army, and took part in the capture of Trenton and other actions of the war, of Independence. His mother was Elizabeth Melton, a lady of time-honored family of North Carolina, in which state the son was -principally educateJ, receiving his preparatory ed ocation at Westrayvilie Academy," and praduatinpr with the highest honors of Chapel Hill University. Ilis valedictory oration contained evidence Of that genius which has illustrated his subsequent career. Previous to his graduation, his parents bad removed to Tennessee, and thither young Brown followed them, entering the law office of Judge Trimble, at Nashville, fn the year 2815. Soon after bisad missiera Hto the bar, he removed to Giles county, where his parents had etabli8hed themselves; Soon after this he formed a business connection with James K. Polk, J destined afterwards to become President of the United States, and although their partnership was severed by Mr. Polk's entrance in the arena of politics, their friendship was continued until the death of the President. During Mr. Polk's administration be freely Consultedi Mr. Brown, and. placed the completest reliance on his judg' meet and discretion. While in the enjoyment of a large practice at the bar, Mr. Brown was an active and influential member of the State Legis ture, disUnguishing himself try his knowledge, ... lit aptitude for business, his foresight, cool fear, lesraessand eloquence. On the 18th October, 1827, he introduced and eloquently advocated a series of resolutions, gifing the election of President to the people, and renominating General Jackson, after his defeat by Mr. Adams, to that - See, In the year 1832, which closed the period of his legislative services in the State, Governor Brown devoted himself to professional practice - and to agriculture, of which Tatter occupation he , was very fond, and which he has eulogized in - someot hi. best addresses. In 1329, he first be-, eme a candidate for Congress. In 1841, he r-s elected without a competitor, and ia 1843, Twectea inampnantly, though an altercation in tis district increased the hazards of the contest. Oo tbw broader field of action opened by the balls of the NaUonsl Legislaturehe at once as sumed a commanding position, and took a lead' ing part in the debates on . the tariff, the fiscal bill, and other important "measures then before Congress, defending Democratic doctrines with signal abtfity. His speeches were equally dis tinguished bv sound logic, a strong array of facts, and by a strain of impassioned eloquence. Ia 1845, he was elected Governor of Tennessee, though even Mr. Polk had just been defeated as a candidate for that office, so strong and well organized was the whig opposition. In a speech he made during the canvas, after ''handling the questioua-of bank and tariff, he passed on to the exciting questions of Texas and Oregon, then agitating the country, and uttered the following national sentiments, which, though often quoted, we cannot refrain from producing here: "It be comes the American people to be ready at all times to assert and defend their rights. America may become the last asylum of human liberty. In almost every other country, the just and equal rights of man "hive been cloven down by the sword, or usurped by the kiug3, princes, and potentates of the earth. Here Liberty has reared .her favorite temple. She has laid iu foundations deep and wide.' Iler bulwarks are massy, exten sive and strong; and the ministers who attend her a'.tars, and the worshippers who come within her gates, should never surrender it, but with their lives. Never was there a people who possessed a more delightful country. Go up with me in imagination and stand for a while on some lofty summit of the Kocky Mountains. Let us take one ravishing view of this chosen land of liberty. Turn your face towards the Gulf of Mex'i oT" What do you behold? Instead of one lone star family sinning in the. far distant South, a mighty galaxy of tstars, of the first raasnitude are bursting on your view, all shining with bright and glorious effulgence. Now turn with me to the West the mighty West where the setting sun dips his broad disk in the. western ocean. Look away down through the misty distauee to the shore of the Pacific, with all its bays, rivers and harbors. Cast your eyes towards the Russian possessions,: in latitude fifty four degrees and forty minutes. What a new ..world lies before you! How many magnificent States to be the future homes of the sous and daughters of free, dotnl But yoa have not yet gazed on half this glorious country. Turn now your face to the East, where the morning sun first shines' on our noble land. Away yonder, you see the immortal thirteen, who achieved onr independence. Nearer to us lie the twelve or 'fifteen" States of the great Valley of the Mississippi, stretching and repos-iai like so many giants in their slumbers. O, now I see your hearts are full; they can take in no more. Who imw feels that he is a party man, or-a Southern man, or a Northern man? Who docs not feel that he is an American, and thankful to Ht-aveu that his lot was cast in such a goodly land? When did mental vision ever rest oh such a scene? Moses, when standing on the summit of Mount Pisah, looking over oh the promised land, viewed nut a scene half so lovely. 0 let us this day vow that . whatever else we may be called, we will never surrender an acre of this goodly heritage to any king or potentate on eartb. Jswear-'it, swear itv my countrymen, and Heaven will record the sacred vow foreyerl" We should like to quote from other speeches of Gov. Brown, had wo the space, particularly from that in defence of Mr. Pulk's ad ministration, delivered in 1817, at.d that iii the subsequent year, advocating the election of Gen. Cass. In 1832, we find him vigorously advocating the election of Gen. Pierce, and iu Ib'jj speaking with great energy against the doctrines of the American or Know Nothing party. ; Indeed, (rom his entrance into pohuc-s,,w 6nd him the able and untiring champion of Democratic doctrines and measures, per-forming a vast amount of work in the halls of. legislation, iu Conventions and on the stump. His unwavering loyalty, his great talents, his broad national views, and his large experience, induced President Buchanan, when forming his Cabinet, to invite him to take charge of the Post Olfice, one of the most important Departments of the State, and one of the most laborious as well as honorable. He haidischarged the duties of this office, the burthens of which are constant ly increasing, to the entire acceptance of the public, receiving the compliments aud commendations of the press, without distinction of par ty. The people have ratified the President's choice. Dacotah Territory. Minnesota papers state that this Territory is receiving a fair share of immigration Numbers are pouring inby way of the Missouri, bound for the valley of the Big Sioux River. It is in con templation to place two steamboats on the Big Sioux this summer, which will run a distance of one hundred and fifty miles above the point where it empties into the Missouri. This will tend greatly to encourage emigration in that di rection. Minnesota and Dacotah contain a large extent of water, navigable for boats of a light draught, which is rapidly being made available. Some five or six hundred miles will this year be added to the empire of stream. xVostitution In New York At the anniversary meeting of the New York Magdalen Society held last week, statistics were produced showing the frightful increase of prostitution in that city. From these it would ap pear that there are within three miles of the city hall no fewer than 400 recbgmYed houses of ilf-fame, containing at least 4,000 abandoned females. The police returns show1 that the whole number of professedly dissolute women in the city cannot be short of twenty.."five, thousand. . Foixowtsc FAsmotf.S&id a judicious fattier "Do not imagfoe, my daoghter, thst yoa are agreeable or attractive, when your person is exposed or when yoa aid nature by arUficial means. Two classes of persons may gaze on yoa, to be sure the immoral and licentious with familiarity; lt reflecting and serious, with sadness. Will yoa cnsant to SQchr scrutiny? Follow fashion no farther than fashion follows propriety. Never let y our mantamaker dictato yoar morals. .ggrrsswit. Search and Seizure of American Vessels. The President transmitted on Friday, 21st alt? to the Senate, in response to a resolution of that body, several official papers, relating to a subject that is now engrossing attention throughout the country. The report of the Secretary of State to the President is as follows: DepXrtmext or State, : "Washington, 18th May, 18a8. ' Sir: Since my despatch No. 103, of the 12th instant, various statements have been made in the public papers, showing other cases of the forcible detention and search of American Vessels by British armed ships-ofwar in the Gulf of Mexico and in the adjacent seas. In every case where these reports have come to the knowledge of this Department, application has been made immediately to the proper collector to procure from the captain a particular account of the outrage, with a view to make it the subject of re clamation upon the British government. Answers to some of these applications have been received, and copies of them, agreeably to the annexed list, are herewith transmitted, for your informa tion, as well as for , your prompt action. When" others are received, you shall, in like manner, be furnished with copies, that jou may be kept advised of the progress of these assaults upon our national rights. In addition to these aggressions upon the high seas, another indefensible act of violence egaihst several of pur merchant vessels, said to be eleven in number, by forcible entry and examination, has been committed by a British armed -steamer i itrtlie harbor of Sagua la Grande, in the island 5f Cuba, : Tha statements in the public journals contain the details of this transaction, but no authentic report on the subject has yet reached the Department, with the exception of a letttr from the Consul General of the United States at Ha-vanna, of which I transmit you a copy. Proper measares have been taken to procure all the necessary information, which will be forwarded to you as soon as it reaches here. When all the facts are ascertained, proper representations will be made, without delay, to the government of her Catholic Majesty against this search of American vessels by the na val force of another po wer, within the territorial jurisdiction of Spain. The United States are satisfied that the government of that country will adopt the most efficient meas' ures to protect their vessels resorting to the Spanish ports fromilawless violence. Such protection they are entitled to, and if it is not found else where, it. must be found in the power of their own country. I am not informed whether any injury was sustain in consequence of the proceedings againsv thee vessels. If there were, it will he expected that be made food by the Spanish gov ernment itself, or by means of its interposition with the government of Great Britain. The flagrant violations of the rights of the U. States have eicited a deep feeling through the country, and have attracted the attention of both houses of Congress. Their continuance cannot fail to produce the most serious effects upon the relations of the two countries. Tlie President con6dently believes that the British naval officers, in the adoption of these high banded measures, have acted without the authority, and have misunderstood the views, of their government. But it is not the less due to the United States that their conduct should be disavowed, and pe remptory orders issued to prevent. the recurrence of similar proceedings hereafter- You will communicate to the Earl of Malmesbury the earnest expectation of the President that this subject should receive the immediate aitention of her Britannic Magesty'a government, and that the officers who have been guilty of these outrages should be held properly responsible for their conduct, and that, where pecuniary injuries have been suffered, the interested parties should re. ceive just compensation. . - l'ou will also invite the particular attention ot Lord Malmesbury to the occurrences at Sagua la Grand, and to the just expectations of the United States that the measured of redress adopted by the British government upon this occasion will be such as to mark with its" displeasure th conduct of the officer whose proceedings have given a serious cause of offence to a friendly power, and to prevent a similar interference here after. - '1 I am, sir, respectfully, - Your obedidieut servant, " ' - V: V ';f LEW. CASS. - George M. Dallas, Esqn &c, &c.t Jbe. A report from the Secretary of the Navy, da ted the 19th insL, states that the United States steamer Fulton, Lieut. Almy commanding.Jbaii beeb ordered to oruise on -the north side of, the coast of Cuba, or sucli other portions as may be deemed necessary for the protection of American vessels on the high seas from search of detention by the vessels-of war of any other nation. Orders have also been given for the immediate preparation of the razee sloop Savannah, at New York, and the big Dolphin, at Boston, to join the honJe scfaaiJron, for the purpose of cruising fn" the neighborhood of Cuba; and (he steam frigate Wabash, now fitting oat at New York as the flag .ship of the Mediterranean squadron, has been directed erf rcnite to show her flag in those waters, and to protect at all times' the persons and property of American citizens. General Cass, on the' 12th instant ids tracts Mr. Dallas, our minister at Dontfori, to call the attention of the Britishr government to the aggressions complained, of. The letter is as fob lows i " . - - - '; '' ""-; '-.-' ' " "The aceb'm panning papers,' copies of the originals of which have just been received, will make known to yoa another outrage committed gainst th rights' of" th e' tTnited" fSates by a British armed vessel, which calls' for the immediate attention of the British go'verntnenV "I am persuaded that, if the occurrence took place as they are stated, the conduct of the British officer will be disavowed and condemned. . lbeg yoa woald communicate to Lord Mai-mesbary:the earnest desire of the President that this practice, which seems to become more pre valent, of detaining and searching American vessels, should be discontinued, 'and that the most peremptory order for that purpose should be given and enforced. Such"-'a measure is called for by important considerations, which will readily occur to you., While this government is determined to use all proper exertions for the suppression, of the slave trade, it is not less desirous that the just immunity of the vessels of the United States npon the ocean should be preserved. Whatever may have been the true objects of the voyage of the Cortez, if she had papers showing her American character, she was subject " neither to se&cch. nor capture by the British cruiser. I do net doubt but the facts reported will be fully investigated by or der of the British government, and proper meas ures taken to prevent the recurrence of a simi lar act hereafter. "I call your attention, also, to the circumstan ces reported by the consul general at Havana, showing the existence of a kind ef police system by which American vessels in that port are watched and interfered with, and have to request that you will, bring the matter to the attention of the Earl of Malmesbury, with a view to the correction of the evil. - The Great Maryland Black Cat Case. From a CorrcFpondent of the Washington Union. "If yoa meet a black cat, shave him to the tail." This tremendous case is now pending before a judicial tribunal of the State of Maryland, and presents many remarkable features of the ingenuity and speculative capacity of the defendant in the case. For the benefit of the legal profession and gentlemen generally who may wish tO enter a new field of speculation, I will give a short history of the case as I beard it. Some few years ago a gentleman of Maryland conceived the idea that an immense fortune could be realized by the rearing black cats for the sake cf their skins. The principal obstacle to the plan was the impossibility of keeping the animals together, and preventing them from wandering off, as their activity, assisted by the penetrating qualities of their claws, would enable them to defy any enclosure, and. at last after much thinking, the idea suggested itself to his mind that water was the only barrier that the cats would not pass. Beiug in possession of an is-laud that appeared to be just tailed for the ex periment, he found all obstacle to the success of his plan remove J, and set abput t acizing the affair. .- " .. . ' - He employed an agent, find j a circular, in which he stated that 'hm would o-ive bo much a head for every black cat itattouliXe yutr This advertisement was circulated throughont all the counties bordering npon the Chesapeake bay, and the negroes got hold of it. In a very short time all the black cats through these counties were stolen by the Degrees and sold to the agent who bad depots established at different conve nient points. Our ladies missed their favorite cats, and mourned them as dead but the negroes, Incited by the price offered, spared none. In this way, one hundred and fifty black cats were collected and transported to the island ; and the agent took up his abode there like another Robinson Crusoe, as superintendent and guardian of the cats. These animals - appeared to jen- joy themaelves vastly when put on the island, and spent their time either in playing with each other, or hunting birds and ground mice ; but at last their game failed them, and having no other supply of food, they became hungry and desperate, and roamed about, the Island in large bands, yelling for food. They at last became danger ousf and the agent wrote to his employer a statement of-the facts, ftccoriipaniedl by a request to know how he was to feed them. lie wrote back for the agent to set a couple of negroes to work to catch and open oysters for the cats, which on der was carried out. The cats, having the alternative of oysters or starvation before them, very naturally chose the former but not being accustomed to such unnatural food, a species of cholera broke out among them, and oue half died. This calamity drove the survivors mad, and they either committed suicide, or, in fit of desperation, swam to main land. At any rate they, disappeared, and were never heard of more.- The agent then . wrote to his employer, to ac quaint him. with the result of this new treatment, which news was accompanied by a modest re quest for the payment of his w aces for this cat experiment occupied a space upward of a year. The latter was so indignant at the conduct of both the agent and the eats, that he flatly refused and in consequence of his refusal, was a suit brought by the agent to recover his wages.- This suit has been defended for some two years, and during its progress, I have become acquainted with the facts. As far as the theory of this; speculation went, it was a magnificient idea. The skin of the black cat is worth, in Boston, 50 cents. The cats, I am told, cost the agent jast that earn. It was supposed tbey would increase exactly tenfold per annum. They : say, first year, number of cats 150 second year, 1,500 3 third year, 15,000 j from which there could be obtained 5,000 toms for sale, bringing $2,500, and leaving 10,000 stock cats remaining j which, at the above ratio of increase, woald give the fourth year the enormous 8am of 100,000 cats' npon the island, after which all the sarplas .over and above the last n amber, were to be canght in box traps, and the 'skins sold to Boston furrieri This stock' of 100,-000 cats were to' produce t,009,000 . skins per an-num, and the revenue consequently to be deriv-, ed from' the island, would be ia .the neighborhood of $'500,000' per annaau .. -f-r The principal drawback to the enterprise was fne utter inability of the cats td organize or band together for the purpose assisting each other, and thus facilitating their hunting operations ; .so after deep reflection npon the subject, it was determined to import a con pie of wild cats from Soath America, whose admixture with- his -cats woald not only add strength to the body and value to Curious Cat Case. . the fur, bat whose executive qualities might be brought so bear in organizing the original settler into large hunting packs and thns enable them to successfully pursue the squirrels and ground mice with which the island abounded and in fact, to teach these unfortunate animals, who, torn from the comfortable firesides, were, of coarse, ignorant of the necessities of savage life, the mysteries of. the chase. He readily found a friend willing to procure him the new cats. I'm afraid this friend regarded the whole matter as a jokejTbut at any rate he was faithful to his pro mise, and as soon after his arrival- in Bio Janeiro as possible, he set some natives hooting, who eaught two young tiger cats of extraordinary ferocity, which he placed in a cage and shipped to Baltimore. When he had almost forgotten the matter, he was surprised by the receipt of a letter apprising him of the arrival of these wild beasts, and was requested tp come forward, pay charges, and take them away.". lie harried into town and found these young tigers; about the size of a medium setter-dog, and a bill of charges of sev eral hundred per cent more than he anticipated. He paid it, and ordered two negroes to convey the beasts in a cart out to his country home, for he wished to exhibit them before he sent them down to take command of his island cat3. On the road out to his place the cats glared and spit at the negroes in such a fiendish manner that, to get ritf of them, they turnedlhe cage over on the bar side, whereby one of the cats was smothered. - - The survivor, being deprived of his mate, became more ferocious than ever, and it became a question whether it would be safe for" the cats upon the island to turn it loose among them. The owner was very much worried until lis negro man suggested that he should try the experi ment b putting a tame cat into the cage. The idea was the very thing. A cat was procured and introduced into the cage. In about two minutes it was torn into, shreds and utterly devoured. Of course it would have been madness to turn the beast loose on the island so the idea was abandoned, and it has been kept ever since as a small menagerie attached to the gentleman's house, with the exception of a periodical visit to the Agricultural Fair in Baltimore when it is placed among the poultry, and causes the hearts of the chickens to die within them. This is a short history of the great black cat scheme, and the suit arising from it. Whether there is legal ability in the state sufficient to settle the matter, is more than I am able to say. Aknapolis, Mdn May 3, 1858. . in, i'..A.Qot8lpplxg:.llnieancej ".". iV The separation betwee a . Wm. H. Herbert and his young wife, and his consequent suicide, was occasioned by the meddling mischief-making propensities of a gossipping hag, who raked up all the exaggerated stories of his former life, and retailed them to his wife. Where is the ducking stool?. The Newark Advertiser says: After their marriage the parties proceeded immediately, to Mr. Herbert's cottage at "The Cedars," about two miles above the centre of this city, on thePassaic river, and for a time they were perfectly happy in each other's society; Some six weeks after this ceremony the reptile spirit of calumny crawled into h"i3 quiet home; it is alleged that some one, represented to be a lady, took occasion, probably without any idea of the tragic, result, and poured into his wife's mind a recital of the worst features of his life in the usual exaggerated g03sip, and on his return he found her alone and melancholy. She told him what had passed, but refused to reveal the person. This fired Herbert's inflammable temperament, and, in tha heat of his impetuosity, he threatened to destroy himself if she did not reveal the name. She In turn became frantically alarmed, and raptured a small blood-vessel, or produced a hemorrhage of the lungs. This in turn alarmed Herbert, who did all he could to restore her health and relieve her m'md; -but from that moment she determined to leave him, and did so during his absence in New York. . . -. : '. ' - According to his representations he passed oat of the gate, which leads into the Cemetery, and she accompanied him to the fence, bidding him an affectionate adiea, with a kiss. On his return she had gone, and the fall gush of desolation and despair unbalanced his sensitive mind. He Strove in vain to bring her back, and thinking it would promote the object, he left his cottage, which he thought might- have been too lonely for her, and took apartment at the Stevens House, New York, late Delmonico's near the Bowline Green. Here he used every effort of his ingenuity to recover his wife, but she steadily refused to meet him, arid finally instructed her attorney to inform him that she would rei ceive no further communications from him. . A Terrific Streak of Lightning The Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph gives the particulars of a most singular freak of lightniag on Tuesday last, in Concord, of that county. The house of Mr. Sticknsy was struck with the fluid, which made sad havoc with every part of the building'; At one end of the roof, rafter, cornice shingles and all are entirely shattered. Id the chamber in this immediate location, and directly beneath a rafter that was shattered into kindling wood, a son of Mr. Stickney was at the moment sitting at a table writting, but escaped without tne slightest injury. Ia another part of the roof everything is carried away, leaving a hole some ten by fifteen feet. 7 One branch of the charge passed into the cellar, where so great was the expansion of the air as to burst away the hatchway. The same effect was manifested in two large: rooms where every window is orated out. Furniture in all parts of the house, except ia the kitchen and a small room adjoining, was Splintered into thousands of fragments, and yet, almost past belief,' of the six members of the family ia the house at the time, not one was in the slightest injured. - J Cluigs iu (Scncral. Wnat an . JEnglisb. Girl Thinks of the : llormons. . , An English girl, named Elizabeth Cotton, who was induced to join the Mormons and emigrate to Salt Lake, writes home to Leeds,Englacd, as follows: I am afraid I never shall see you again; but still I live in hopes. We started from. Salt Lake some time since to come back again, but the Mormons met us, and we were compelled to go back. On arriving at the Salt Lake I was not a little surprised to see the men running after th women and asking if they were married; bat l have not got married yet, and do not intend to. Many of the men have eight or ten wires, and they sleep with one two nights, and the other two nights, and so oa and this is Mormonism. Bat this is not all, for Brigham Young has sixty women, and they had twelve sops in one year, and how many daughters I do not know. What they preach about is, -, thieving and cut" ting anybody's throat- and if yoa ask anything about it you are told it is none of your d- d business. I know one young woman of fifteen who has had four husbands in five months, and that gives you an idea of Mormonism..: Ann Jubb came along with us across the plains, and when she got to Salt Lake there were so many men running after her that she got married, and she is the second wife, and they call her Ann Webb, but she is far from being comfortable, and would be glad to be back again. If I was in England, and any Mormon elder came to the house where I was, I would give him a pretty warm reception. Mormonism in England and Mormonism in Salt Lake are as different as chalk and cheese. ; - Another Hurricane. This seems to be a year , of storms. We are the sufferers in this instance. . It occurred Mon. day May 1 7th in the afternoon. In a moment after the storm burst upon 03, our new brick church was in ruins; Ruhl's grove was uprooted, the wood-house of the C. C. & C. R. R. Co., was destroyed; nttmerbus other buildings throughout the town were unroofed, and, saddest record of all, one life was lost. The man killed was a worthy German laborer, by the name of Frank Miller. He was coming pa foot from Crestline to our place. Walking on the railroad track, just after he had crossed the bridge, he was overtaken by the Storm. A freight car, standing on a side track, was caught by the current of the tornado, and blown like a straw along the track. Blinded by the beating of the hail, or perhaps blown into its track, the poor fellow was crushed under its wheels. He was found almost immediately, was removed to the house of Mr. Jacob Yost, and died the same evening. The loss of the church will be severely felt by the United Brethren, (the denomination own-infti,) taj we hope that they will have the pock- etjtslt ajmp&thy of . onr citizens, and. of their brethren abroad. Crestline and Liberty, we understand, have suffered severely. Indeed the storm seems to have been general throughout tht3 section. Judgment of its violence at this point may be found from the fact of its having blown down no less than seventy trees in RuLl's grove, a little tract of some two or three acres of wood land. Gcdion Democrat. Horrible Kape by a 2fegro. . A most revolting rape was committed by a negro on a Miss Blatchly, a school teacher at North Branford Connecticut. The New Haven ' cor, respondent of the Hartford Times says that the outrage was committed by a burly negro named Franklin, and was more aggravating than at first reported. He is about thirty years of age. The fellow according to his own statement made to the jailor, met the young woman in a lonely patch of woods, through which she was going to her school in the morning. Possibly he had ascertained that she would be likely to take that path as the nearest one to the school, and so placed himself there on purpose. He seized her and dragged her into a thicket where, in spite of her. cries, he held her fast. He states that she struggled furiously, and bit and scratched him, shrieking for help, for upwards of an hour! She at last became utterly exhausted, and unable to resist him for want of strength when as he alleges, he accomplished his base purpose. His face bears bloody evidence of the desperation of the struggles of his victim. The girl is said to have told a somewhat different story about his being frightened off by a man's voice. " He appears callous and brutal, , and talks of his crime coolly. Speaking of his poor victim, he remarked to the jailor, that "Dat was a pooty smart woman" or wordsj to that effect.. This is an appeal to those who earnestly advocate, tquattiff which is irresistible He should swing loftily. " ,. The Dead-Letter Ofice. This is one of the peculiar institutions of the Government. That's certain. During a single year, in addition to some $50,000 in money returned to its lawful ownerSr there- have been found in the letters, and restored, drafts, checks and other valuable papers, amounting to three and a half millions of dollars: In the greater number cf instances dead letters which. have thus been returned to the department, have failed to reach their destination in uue coarse by reason of misdirection. This may, doubtless, be attributed to the hurry in which banks and large mercantile houses close up their correspondence for the day. 0ae bank sends a letter covering paper amounting to thousands of dollars inside the package is addressed to Nashville, outside to New Orleans. Another . heavy remittance is di reeled to Troy New .York, without any address whatever oa the inside. A third package was directed oa the outside to LouUville, Ky.; the inside direction is to New. Orleans. - . ' A Mas Mcbdk3kdbj Mob ts Iowa Citt.- A man was deliberately murdered, on Thursday last, hy a mc-h at Iowa Citj by teing forcibly drowned ia the river. From thirty to forty of the mob were, arrested and lodged in the city prison. The man was understood to be charged with horse stealing and other depredations of a similar aatore. The Hew York Iliiknen. Stirred Up. , '-Frank Leslie's Kcws is. after the New York milk-men with a sharp and penetrating stick.- The last issue of that paper has several cuts illustrative af the villainy of the milk men. It seems they not only chalk and water the milk : but the article ia it3 purest state is frequently ta-: , ken from diseased cows. One of the cuts shows " ns a cow covered with running sores, and the Ketcs asserts that the milk from this cow is daily sold in New York, ; We guess people from the-interior won't take much milk in their coffee hereafter when they Tisit Gotham. . Sy Frank Leslie deserves every person's" thanks for this exposure. mi . 1 ggmgg "- t The Jews Preparing to Acknowledge " - Christ. . . ; . - The Rev. Mr. Burns, a converted Jew, and Asi ; sietant -Secretary of the Society for ameliorating the condition of the Jews, is Jectaringin Boston. A few nights ago he stated that in his official capacity, he had recently "received a letter from England, giving an aeconnt of a meeting cf Rabbis in that (country to discuss the question wheth'. er Christ was the true Messiah, "Tbey agreed , if. the Messiah did not come in fifteen years to accept Christ as the true Messiah." " . 4 abics' Foolish Virgins.' In olden times there were VJice juolltft virgins." We are afraid that there are fully a3 m.nj as that number at this present day. Some cf theni were born foolish; some of them' were made foolish by the example of their weak-minded moth-" ' ers; and some of them have male themselves : foolish. . ... .' ' See that dashing belle, flounced from her hel to her arm pits, and bedizened with jewelry ' pearls, gems, and precious stones, ner mother thinks her an angel; and: 6he thinks herself an archangel; but she is a "foolish virgin that is all she i3. ne who made her endowed her with ; an immortal soul, and pointing her to an eter nal hereafter, 'said to her, "Let not yonr ador- - ning be outward, the adorning of plaiting the hair, of wearing gold, or of putting on apparelj let it be the hidden man of the heart, even the; ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price." But all the adorning that this foolish virgin has in outicard'. She has no solid education no mental culture. and no noble and gencroas heart. She is not qualified for any usefu'ness " in this world except as a frame on which to exhibit dry -goods and the dressmaker's skill. And when ehe shall appear before her Maker, stripped of her "out ward adorning," and without that precious "orna"" ment of the heart, what a miserable figure that foolish virgin will cut. It is awful to th uk of the future of these mere.'- tmft 6rlespf JssLi . What is she good for?" She coaki nofmaka a-loaf of bread, nor roast a turkey, nor bake a padding.' She could not knit a tidy, though she often knits her brow. She could not darn a stocking, though she could darn everything elset The most simple article of dress that adores her , useless body she could not make. . Shc toils not, neither does she spin, yet Solomon, in all his glory, is not arrayed like her. She has very little mind. Her head 13 well nigh as hol low as a yellow pumpkin.. She can only talk of theaters, balls, fashion and beaux; Her mortal nature is wholly uncultivated.' She spends more time in examining fashion plates, than in examining her poor little heart; more time in reading love storie3 than in reading the blessed Bible. . What oa earth is she good for? She is a bj'1 of useless expense to her father, and a barren fig tree in the great moral vineyard. The world would be better off if this foolish virgjn no longer cumbered the ground. And one of these days the scythe of time will cut her down, and the miserable flirt will go to her account. GirlsJ young women, consider yoar ways. Have a high and worthy purpose. Make yourselves a blessing to this woili. Abhor to be Flora 51c Flimsy," as yoa would abhor to be any other fool," Be usefal, be modest, be good, be "wise virgins, and when the great bridegroom shall come, you , shall go with him to the marriage. . Silk Dresses, Laces, &c 4 . We frequently see ia the newspapers th&ii. lady, on her bridal day, or at a ball, wore a silk dress, worth, with it3 laces, trimmings, Jttu, one thousand dollars. Of course, alL the ingredients used in the manufacture of the cosily garment were imported from Europe. Let us have soma words oa the subject. . , ' ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. . Is the payment for the service of a goJ cloxii during a whole year. It is the wages of a mechanic for three jeoJ at one dollar per day. It is the wages of one farm hani fr teeu jears at one hundred and fifty dollars per year. It is the price at four dollars aud sevet.ty -five cents of two hundred and fifteen barrels of Q jur to be shipped from New York to pay fr tho dress; or, in other words, it is the bread of foi ty-two thousand one hundred and forty nieufoc, oue dayi at one paund each or the bread of oac man during oni handred and sixteen years. ' It is the price of two hundred thousand bricks at fire dollars per thousand. It is the price of twenty five fit steers at forty dollars a piece. : It is the price ot two hundred neat and tidy calico dresses at five dollars eachl 5 - It is the price of twenty , bales of cotuia t twelve and a half cents per poanJ. r . It is the price of tea tons of hemp at uuo hundred dollars pr torn - It is the price of tea thousand poua 1 of to bacco at tea cents per pound. " - ' - It is the crop of oue handred and twenty five acres of corn at eight dollars per acre. - - ' It is the crop oT filly acres of wheat at twenty bushels per acre, and oue doVt per hu?Ld. , -It is the crop ot forty acres in potiUx , at f-"." ty boshels to the acre, and ;ty ceats l.s I !'.!. It is for ten years the real of a hote u! i f dollars per month.' gcprlmmf